Boston Red Sox at Kansas City Royals

· Major League Baseball

Boston Red Sox

21-20, 10-11 Away

Final
10 - 1

Kansas City Royals

24-17, 16-6 Home

Crochet, Red Sox beat KC 10-1 to end Royals' winning streak at 7

Trevor Story mashes 3-run homer for Red Sox

Crochet (4-2) struck out nine and walked one. He struck out Bobby Witt Jr. with the bases loaded to end the seventh.

Trevor Story blew open a close game with a three-run homer.

Cole Ragans (2-2) took the loss. He allowed four runs on seven hits through five innings. He struck out eight and walked two.

The Red Sox got to Ragans in the third. With two outs, Jarren Duran singled and scored on Devers' double.

The Royals answered with a run in the bottom of the third. Witt stroked a one-out single, stole second, went to third on a balk and scored on a looping hit by Mark Canha.

The Red Sox scored three runs in the fifth on four consecutive hits. Duran, Devers and Alex Bregman each delivered RBI singles.

Story's home run came with two outs in the seventh, and Carlos Narvaez added a two-run shot in the eighth.

Key moment After the Red Sox took a 4-1 lead in the fifth inning, Crochet got the shut-down inning he needed. Even with an error by shortstop Trevor Story, Crochet didn't allow a runner to reach second base.

Key stat Kansas City’s Salvador Perez celebrated his 35th birthday Saturday. With a first-inning single, Perez had a hit for the seventh time in the last 10 years on his birthday.

Up next Boston LHP Lucas Giolito (0-1, 8.38 ERA) was set to face RHP Seth Lugo (3-3, 2.84 ERA) in the series finale Sunday.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	India grounded out to shortstop.
	9th Inning	Waters struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Fermin flied out to right.
	9th Inning	Bernardino relieved Hendriks
	9th Inning	Rafaela struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Narváez singled to center, Sogard to second.

Statistics

BOS		KC
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
13	Ground Balls	12
12	Strikeouts	11
10	Runs Batted In	1
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
15	Hits	9
0	Stolen Bases	1
4	Walks	1
0	Catcher Interference	0
10	Runs	1
0	Ground Into Double Play	0
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
41	At Bats	36
2	Home Runs	0
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
16	Runners Left On Base	18
1	Triples	0
1	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
2	Doubles	1
16	Fly Balls	13
1	Caught Stealing	1
185	Pitches	132
0	Games Started	0
0	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	1
25	Total Bases	10
45	Plate Appearances	37
324.0	Projected Home Runs	0.0
5	Extra Base Hits	1
9.5	Runs Created	2.4
.366	Batting Average	.250
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.610	Slugging Percentage	.278
.317	Secondary Average	.056
.422	On Base Percentage	.270
1.032	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.548
0.8	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.9
9.5	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	2.3
67.5	Batter Rating	16.0
20.5	At Bats Per Home Run	0.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.50
4.11	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.57
.244	Isolated Power	.028
0.33	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.09
.089	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.027
-.049	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	-.194
20.0	Runs Produced	2.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.7	Patience Ratio	0.3
0.5	Balls In Play Average	0.4
110.3	MLB Rating	70.8
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0